whiteoutage
- Jul 20, 2017
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The circuit board(not pictured) was damaged. Would like to use as a work light in my garage? Can I just hook up a 12V power supply directly to the LEDs(second picture).
I did test them and there are six LEDs in pairs of two. Don't have a proper power supply so applied 5V with my old phone charger and all six LEDs lite dimly when I bridge the three negative posts on the connector together. When LED 1,2,3 are powered individually the pairs light with same brightness when bridging them.
Then, with a retired 6.8V camcorder PS the same results but with very bright lights. /Then again with a 12V PS - even still brighter. Tests were only for a second or two as I am afraid I will blow them up bypassing what may possibly be called the driver board (please forgive, i'm just an electronics knob who seams to fry LEDs far too often).
The heat sinks are huge so will those prevent them from blowing or do I need to add resistor(s), more circuitry somehow?
I did test them and there are six LEDs in pairs of two. Don't have a proper power supply so applied 5V with my old phone charger and all six LEDs lite dimly when I bridge the three negative posts on the connector together. When LED 1,2,3 are powered individually the pairs light with same brightness when bridging them.
Then, with a retired 6.8V camcorder PS the same results but with very bright lights. /Then again with a 12V PS - even still brighter. Tests were only for a second or two as I am afraid I will blow them up bypassing what may possibly be called the driver board (please forgive, i'm just an electronics knob who seams to fry LEDs far too often).
The heat sinks are huge so will those prevent them from blowing or do I need to add resistor(s), more circuitry somehow?
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